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2101 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA | Directions 9411537.789046 -122.434005
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Neighborhoods: Lower Pacific Heights (Fillmore), Lower Pacific Heights, Central North
We'll be back! – We don't live in The City but we visit often. We usually have dinner in North Beach since there are so many good restaurants there to choose from. But since we were in the Filllmore and had a parking space we decided to stay there for dinner. We wanted a salad and a pizza. We chose Dino's because he had several salads to choose from on the menu. Usually a salad seems to be an afterthought in most pizza parlors, but ours were delicious and fresh with a tasty dressing. We each ordered the house wine. I had a couple of glasses of the Cab and my wife had the Pinot Grigio. Both were pretty good. The pizza was delicious. I ordered a side of anchovies and got a very generous helping. Yum! The service was very attentive and friendly from Dino and his staff. We dined outside on the sidewalk and even though it was unusually cold for San Francisco we were quite warm and cozy sitting under the heaters.It was fun to be outside and watch everyone walk by and check out our pizza. All in all a very friendly and comfortable atmosphere. Then when we were done with our meal Dino gave us each a complimentery glass of wine.
Best Pizza Joint in SF – I never write reviews, but I just moved a couple of blocks from Dino's Pizza and the staff were all soooo nice and accomodating that I only hoped the food was as good. I had take out, loved the pesto pizza! The menu has way more than your average corner pizza joint also. It seemed like it was a cute and cozy place to dine in with friends as well. Will definitely be going back. 5 stars for me.
A jewel on Fillmore Street – Dino and his crew serve up great food and pitchers of beer in a down-to-earth atmosphere. The outstanding service and tasty food (try the mountain pizza and Greek salad) make this an ideal place to watch a game, drink a few pitchers with a group of friends, dine with family, or go to for a date. The upstairs can be reserved for large groups.
This Lower Pacific Heights pizzeria features traditional thick-crust pies and red-sauce pastas. – Lunch and dinner can be quite crowded here, primarily with young professionals from the neighborhood. The doughy, medium-thick pizza, served by the pie or slice, is loaded with a thick layer of cheese and fresh tomato sauce. More than a dozen traditional toppings are available, including mushrooms, pineapple, sausage and fried eggplant. Red-sauce pasta dishes come with a large dinner salad and a basket of rosemary-spiked garlic toast.
Great Pizza in a Great Location, Crowded but Good customer service – After hearing a raving recommendation from a friend and upon realizing I live so close to it, I finally checked it out with my boyfriend. We went to grab a quick bite to eat on a Sunday evening. It was crowded -- no different than those times that I passed by it -- but the service was pretty good. The pizza was not disappointing at all; the slices were thin enough to make it not doughy, but filling enough to hold all the toppings. I'm still exploring the different pizza options in SF, but I'm definitely keeping Dino's on my list of "places to revisit".
This is my first citysearch review, but I felt I had to report my feelings about this pizza...YUK. I walk by this place all the time and the pizza looks so good. I finally ordered a medium cheese pie for delivery tonight. The crust tasted like cardboard. I really don't need to say much more...but I will. The bottom of the crust was crispy, too crispy and dry. The upper portion of the crust was chewy. I'd rather eat a pizza hot pocket. It tastes more like a real pizza. Very disappointing. Plus a medium, cheese only pie came to $13.45 + tip. Definitely not worth it.
Yum! – The crust is medium thick, but they still get it crispy so it's not a soggy mess. Good selection of toppings and the greek salad is tasty. This is a great neighborhood spot and I love how nice everyone was there, especially Dino himself! Don't let your frustration with pizza in SF prevent you from trying this place - it's actually one of the few good places!
The best – All the guys at Dino's are the best! Good food, great atmosphere, and the best service in town! Everyone there is always to friendly and happy to see you. They really appreciate their customers and go out of their way to prove it!
A great discovery – I can't believe I ignored this place for 7 years. Right at the corner of California and Fillmore, Dino's is a great, inexpensive, charming little pizza joint with an emphasis on friendly service and value - and the pizza's not bad either. Huge salads smothered with mozzarella cheese help add a little greenery to your meal. I'm stunned this one didn't make the pizza "Best Of" lists here at Citysearch - it's much better than at least half the pizza joints in the top 20, and at least holds its own against the rest.
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What is the well-dressed office worker reading on the evening train this season? The Economist.
The Economist? Yes. An article on family businesses.
The article reported that in Europe and the Anglosphere over 90% of businesses are family owned. Even large public corporations can have strong family ties: Coca-Cola, Nordstrom's, WalMart, and Disney all come to mind. But the typical family business is a small to mid-sized operation.
Most of the families want to keep their business in the family. A J.P. Morgan survey of second generation family firms found that 52% planned to be family-owned and operated into the next generation. A further 26% expected to at least maintain family ownership. But experts say that only a third of these businesses survive the change in generations. Perhaps as few as 5% of these firms are going concerns in the third generation. Those that do survive have usually created a clear process for governance in which boards containing some outsiders meet frequently and in which the family members themselves meet several times a year to reach a rough consensus on the firm's direction.
Some time ago in an idle hour I picked up a fifty-cent book from a library sale. I don't remember why. Maybe the title gripped me. It must have been the title, because the book was a social scientist's anthropological account of a Mexican business clan and the rest of the writing was no better than one would expect. I devoured the thing, though. Hidden in all the jargon was something inexplicable, a desire, a dream, a vision, or in C.S. Lewis terms, a surprise of joy. I might call it the Spirit. In any case, there was something fine in this family. They squabbled often and went bankrupt more than once. They also put together some real and valuable businesses, provided work for any family members who were able, and knew intimately the story of their family and the situation of its current members. They gave up some extremely valuable buyouts and opportunities to go public in order to keep their businesses in the family. I admired them. I wished that I could meet them on some field where my salute would do them honor.
Back home a family further down the highway owns a business. They rent out light and heavy machinery. My brother works for them over the summers and on the weekends. So do others in the ward. So do their sons and daughters and sons-in-law. They are in many ways the emotional core of the ward, along with the extended family that does heating and air-conditioning. I admire those two families too.
Some of our Mormon family businesses are more prominent. The Marriots are in their second generation. The Huntsmans are still in their first. I believe Mitt Romney's venture capital business is actually the modern iteration of a family concern. Further back in time we had the Browning family. I don't think any Saints see these real-life families as a model of anything in particular though, nor do the Saints see a family business of any size as an ideal.
I wonder why not. Family business seems to help fill in the gap between virtue and the workplace. Not that the workplace is devoid of virtues nor that the pursuit of profit is wrong. This is going to sound like an anti-capitalist screed but it's not. It's just that the corporate employees of non-family firms, like lawyers, are agents, and have the difficult task of reconciling their desire to do good with their duties to their principals. This problem is even worse in large public firms where the principals are faceless stockholders whose only known characteristic is that they like profits. (The frequent attempts to explain why this or that socially conscious policy makes for good business are usually, in my opinion, just as frequently figleafs for managers blowing off their stockholders in pursuit of their own ends).
In the family concern, on the other hand, the owners and the operators are conjoined enough that they can seek for the good of the whole person, not just the bottom line. More importantly, the thin business relationships are threaded into thicker personal relationships, potentially strengthening both. Profits aren't just profits, they're the fruit of joint family work.
Having an enterprise gives a kind of coherence to the family structure too. It takes all the potential in families for cooperation and service and demands its actuality. (Which is why, incidentally, I think Mormon novelists are missing a beat if they focus on standard-grade families where the dad works at one thing, the mom at something else or at the home, the kids have parttime jobs while they save for college and their own careers somewhere else, etc. Putting all the family into a business gives a lot more possible structure and physical consequences to their interactions. Plus, you still get issues of authority and inspiration and the individual versus the group and family troubles and all that but far enough removed from a Church setting that they're a little less touchy to handle.)
Owned and operated family businesses, it seems to me, can also avoid the worst problems of inherited wealth. Inherited wealth is a stewarship, sure, but it tends to get frivoled away because the stewardship is to no one in particular. In a family business one's stewardship has a face. It is to the other members of the family who depend on the enterprise, to the future members who will inherit it, and it is to the previous generation who expect it to be kept up.
I am glad that we Mormons turn the hearts of the children to their fathers through genealogy work and storytelling. I'm glad we institutionalize that turning through temple work and family organizations. Family websites and family reunion groups also keep the flame alive. I just wish—I have wished for a long time—that the workplace and career could involve family too. What joy is there in growing up and moving away? Let us stay and enterprise together.
I'm glad my brothers have chosen to be engineers in my father's footsteps. I look forward next year to moving home to Albuquerque. My father has finally converted part of the pasture to fruit trees like we've talked about. We'll find a place close by, my wife and I, and go over in the evenings to prune and pick and can and work together.


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In 2007, the Legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 9 relating to school safety issues. SB 9 requires practically all public and charter school employees and even some contractors and school volunteers to undergo criminal background checks. Some individuals are subject only to a search of state criminal records, while others must submit to a national criminal history review conducted by the FBI. Fingerprints are required for the FBI's national criminal history review. Searches of state criminal records are name-based and do not require fingerprints.
The author of SB 9 was Sen. Florence Shapiro (R-Plano), who chairs the Senate Education Committee. From the start of the 2007 legislative session, ATPE was informed that SB 9 was Sen. Shapiro's top priority for the session and that the bill was strongly supported by the lieutenant governor, who presides over the Senate. With so much adamant support from state leaders, it was clear some sort of fingerprinting law would be enacted
in 2007.
The original version of SB 9 presented a lot of problems for educators, and when it was heard in the Senate committee, ATPE and other teacher groups testified at length about needed changes. In response to our efforts, Shapiro instructed her staff to meet with us to work on new language. We succeeded in getting some very positive changes made on the Senate side and even more positive changes on the House side when the bill was heard there. Rep. Dan Branch (R-Dallas) sponsored the bill on the House side.
Most importantly, ATPE fought to ensure that the state would not force existing teachers to pay to have their fingerprints taken. Legislative leaders promised us repeatedly that the state would pick up the tab for this. But in the final hours of the
2007 legislative session, lawmakers somehow failed to include the fingerprint funding in the budget bill. We were told that the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker had the authority to appropriate funds after the session to cover this, and we made pleas through the media for them to do so. We also immediately began meeting with senior officials of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) about this, and within a few weeks, the governor ordered TEA to use state funds to cover the cost of fingerprinting the existing teachers.
ATPE continued to meet with agency staff throughout the summer and fall of 2008 as TEA prepared for implementation of the bill. When the formal rulemaking process began, we also testified about the new law on numerous occasions before the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) and the State Board of Education (SBOE). Throughout the history of this law, we have worked at every possible level to serve the best interests of our members and promote safer schools at the same time.
In addition to the fingerprinting requirements, SB 9 contains some other provisions relating to educators. The law restricts the entry of registered sex offenders onto school premises. It sets forth criteria that will make an individual ineligible for employment in a school setting. It improves communication between education officials and Child Protective Services (CPS) in child abuse investigations. SB 9 also included an ATPE-requested amendment that protects the confidentiality of educators' certification exam scores.
Many ATPE members wonder why educators have to be fingerprinted when most of them have no criminal history whatsoever. Some members have said that simply being required to undergo fingerprinting makes them feel like criminals. Though it might seem intrusive or inconvenient, the fingerprinting law does not criminalize educators and should not make you feel as though you've done something wrong. Many other professionals, including doctors, lawyers, nurses, day care workers and even realtors are required to be fingerprinted. Furthermore, new applicants for educator certification have been required to undergo fingerprinting since 2003, so fingerprinting teachers is not a new phenomenon in Texas. Likewise, most other states are beginning to require educators to be fingerprinted.
It's important to remember that many employers routinely conduct background checks on their potential employees. You've probably filled out job applications where you've been asked to consent to a background check as a condition of your application for the job. School districts, especially, have been doing background checks on their employees for years; some have even required fingerprints. Even if you've never been fingerprinted before, chances are that you've already been through a criminal background check as a school employee.
Employers, including most school districts, have typically relied on name-based searches rather than fingerprints simply because of cost. The problem with name-based background checks is that they are limited in scope. They only turn up records of criminal offenses that occurred in Texas. Fingerprinting, on the other hand, is the only method that allows an entity to search criminal records in all 50 states. Thus, the only real difference between name-based searches and fingerprint-based searches is the scope of the search.
Without the use of fingerprints for a national background check, a person convicted of a serious or violent offense in another state could potentially move to Texas and be hired to work in a public school because SBEC and school districts would have no way of finding out about his criminal record outside of Texas. A national criminal history search protects not only the safety of students but also the safety of all the other staff like yourself who might otherwise end up unknowingly working side-by-side with a dangerous criminal right there in your own school. For this reason, SB 9 benefits students and staff alike by offering this additional protection for their safety while they are at school.
We know that many of our members are the backbone of their communities and are exemplary moral models. ATPE recognized from the beginning of the discussions about SB 9 that some of our members would be offended by the fingerprinting requirement. However, we also know that these same members value school safety and the safety of students, and we hope they will understand the necessity of extreme measures in the world in which we live today
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The vision of Juan N. Seguín Elementary school is to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level. Our students will be competent problem solvers, fluent writers, and team players. All students will leave Seguín prepared for a successful transition to middle school.
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Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year. We are very excited to have you as a member of the Seguin family. The staff and I have very high expectations and we are ready to provide the best educational experience your child will ever have.
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LEWIS H. SARETT WAS the first chemist to synthesize cortisone. It was a feat of remarkable complexity involving nearly 40 chemical steps from desoxycholic acid and was achieved during World War II as a chemist in the Merck Research Laboratories. This synthesis and subsequent improvements of it ultimately led to cortisone's use in treating rheumatoid arthritis and was the first of Sarett's many contributions to medicine during a 40-year career at Merck. When he retired in 1982 he was senior vice-president for science and technology. He had been a key contributor to Merck's growth, and in later years Sarett was an influential industry spokesman for U.S. science policy.
Lew Sarett was born in Champaign, Illinois, on December 22, 1917. His father was a professor of speech at Northwestern University, a poet, and an outdoorsman. The latter interest led him to locate his family in Laona in northern Wisconsin while he lived in Evanston, Illinois, for one semester of the school year. Lew enjoyed rural life, but the commuting ultimately became too much for his father, and the family moved back to Illinois, where Sarett attended high school in Highland Park. A beginner's chemistry set introduced him to science, and with the encouragement of one of his relatives, Charles Osgood, later to become a curator of the Peabody Museum at Yale, he acquired an interest in fossils. Apparently on his own, Lew became an avid chess player and even in retirement he continued to play chess using a computer as his opponent. One of his characteristics as a chemist and manager was his love of challenges and an ability to devise detailed strategies. These traits were evident in his lifelong enjoyment of chess.
In 1935 Lew enrolled in Northwestern University where he originally thought he might major in mathematics, but the chemistry department, which included Charles Hurd and Ward Evans, was a good one. Sarett had a natural talent for chemistry, more so than for advanced mathematics, so he became a chemistry major. He continued playing chess and, with the encouragement of his father who was an athlete in college, he also took up wrestling. He did well in his chemistry courses and graduated from Northwestern University in 1939 with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
To continue his studies after Northwestern Sarett applied to four graduate schools. Princeton offered him a teaching assistantship, which he accepted on the recommendation of Professor Hurd. Princeton's department was strong in physical chemistry (Henry Eyring, Hugh Taylor and John Turkevich), but Sarett wanted to do synthesis. The choices were Greg Dougherty and Everett Wallis, and the latter's work in steroid chemistry held great appeal. Some of the best chemists of the day were working on steroids. Sarett was caught up in that cutting-edge research, which intensified when the United States entered World War II in December 1941. Sarett's assignment with Wallis was to explore bromination reactions of steroidal ketones with the long-range objective of converting steroids like cholesterol into the female sex hormone estradiol.
Princeton granted Sarett a Ph.D. degree after only two and one-half years so he could begin working in early 1942 at Merck on the synthesis of cortisone. Syntheses of it and penicillin were given high priority in the war effort and consortiums of industrial and academic scientists were created to expedite their production. The cortisone consortium included a group at the Mayo Clinic under E. C. Kendall, and Sarett spent a short time there before working full-time at Merck. Great importance was attached to a cortisone synthesis since supplies from bovine adrenal glands were extremely limited and it was believed (although erroneously) that the hormone increased the endurance of German pilots at high altitudes.
Sarett's synthesis of cortisone from desoxycholic acid required moving the 12-ketone to the 11-position, introduction of an unsaturated ketone in the A-ring and replacement of the bile acid side chain by dihydroxyacetone functionality. Relocating the ketone was achieved using methodology pioneered by Tadeus Reichstein's group in Basel, Switzerland. Sarett degraded the bile acid side chain to a 17-ketone, from which he fashioned a protected dihydroxyacetone side chain in a multi-step process. Bromination and dehydrobromination afforded the unsaturated ketone functionality required in ring A. The Merck process research group led by Max Tishler supplied some of the intermediates required in this synthesis; however, without an assistant, Sarett had gone through nearly 40 steps to produce 18 milligrams of cortisone.
On March 1, 1944, Sarett married Mary Adams Barrie. They lived in Princeton and had two daughters: Mary Nicole Sarett of Skillman, New Jersey, and Katharine Wendy Young of Devon, Pennsylvania. Sarett frequently entertained Merck colleagues at his home and in later years he became a low-handicap golfer.
Shortly after the war ended, Merck management decided to make cortisone available to clinical investigators to see if a use could be found for it. Sarett's partial synthesis had been improved and scaled up by Max Tishler's chemists and by April 1948 almost 100 grams of cortisone were on hand.
When later that year Philip Hench tried cortisone in a female patient with rheumatoid arthritis, her improvement was spectacular, and cortisone was hailed as a wonder drug. Knowledge of its efficacy led to urgent clinical requests for the compound. With justifiable confidence in Merck chemistry, George Merck convinced U.S. government officials that Merck could in reasonable time supply all that was needed. While Tishler's group improved the bile acid process still further and established its commercial viability, Lew Sarett and his group accomplished a total synthesis of cortisone, which he announced in 1952. Although it did not go into production, Sarett was very proud of that achievement, which the Annual Reports of the Chemical Society said was the best synthetic chemistry contribution of that year. Sarett's cortisone achievements brought him acclaim in the academic community. He was offered a faculty position at MIT, but he turned it down to accept expanded responsibilities at Merck as head of medicinal chemistry.
Cortisone's leadership position in the treatment of arthritis was overtaken by prednisolone following its discovery in 1955 by scientists at the Schering Corporation. They had been working on alternative methods of making cortisone; instead, they discovered that an additional double bond in the A-ring of cortisol modestly increased its potency, and more importantly, this change markedly reduced the sodium retention properties of cortisol. The realization that a natural hormone's efficacy and therapeutic index could be improved by chemical manipulation had profound consequences in the steroid field and in drug design more generally. Josef Fried and his group at Squibb enhanced cortisone's potency by introducing a 9α-fluorine group. Sarett's group showed 16α-methyl steroids had advantages in both potency and sodium retention. Putting all of these structural features together, Sarett's group produced Decadron, which to this day is the high-potency clinical standard among anti-inflammatory steroids.
As head of medicinal chemistry at Merck, Sarett became an industry leader in drug design. He evolved rules for the minimum systematic development of screening leads and elaborated receptor concepts to rationalize the anti-inflammatory activities of cortisone analogs. His department in Rahway, New Jersey, also had responsibility for Merck's animal health products. That business had begun several years earlier with Tishler's development of sulfaquinoxaline for coccidiosis. Sarett and his group led by Ed Rogers and Horace Brown produced the coccidiostats Amprol and Nicarbazin and the anthelmintic Thibenzole. They were market leaders for many years.
Most importantly, Sarett continued to innovate therapy for arthritis. When manipulations of the steroid nucleus failed to improve the therapeutic index of Decadron, he and Ralph Hirschmann devised steroidal conjugates that were selectively activated in the inflamed joint. These compounds unfortunately lacked oral activity and so were not developed, but this work was a dramatic early example of drug latentiation that is still a viable way to maximize safety.
Ultimately, addressing the shortcomings of steroids required a fundamental change in strategy. Aspirin had been in use for many years, so there was precedent for nonsteroidal arthritic drugs. The problem was how to discover new therapeutic mechanisms or improve the potency of aspirin. Under Sarett's leadership Merck scientists took up that challenge. A reliable animal assay for anti-inflammatory activity was developed by Charles A. Winter, and T. Y. Shen headed the chemistry effort. Together with their colleagues this team and Sarett in a remarkable burst of creativity produced Indocin, Clinoril, and Dolobid. With Decadron these drugs became mainstays of therapy and have been used to alleviate the pain and disabilities of millions of rheumatoid and osteoarthritis patients.
In 1969 Sarett was made president of the Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories, a position that he held until 1976. During that time Merck became a leader in vaccine research. Maurice Hilleman's group in its West Point laboratories produced a triple vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella, and Pneumovax was introduced, affording protection against 14 strains of pneumonia.
Sarett had a longstanding interest in natural products and one of his legacies was to strengthen Merck capabilities in fermentation product research. An early achievement was the identification of a methoxycephalosporin in 1972 from which Burton Christensen and his associates produced Mefoxin. This injectable antibiotic had excellent activity against a group of organisms resistant to existing antibiotics. For several years it became one of the leading antibiotics in hospital use.
Most importantly, in 1976, the year of his retirement as president of the Merck Research Laboratories, the broad-spectrum antibiotic thienamycin and the antiparasitic drug avermectin were discovered. Their development in subsequent years led to Imipenem and Ivermectin. The former is one of the antibiotics of last resort in hospital use today. The latter is widely used to treat roundworms in cattle and sheep and prevent heartworm infections in dogs and river blindness in humans.
Sarett also organized the New Lead Discovery Department first under Ralph Hirschmann and then under Arthur Patchett in 1972. Sarett was ahead of his time in recognizing a need to generate compounds in large numbers for biological testing. That department, whose structure and mission were established by Sarett, produced several of Merck's biggest products in the 1980s and 1990s, including Vasotec, Prinivil, and Mevacor.
When Sarett was promoted to corporate management in 1976, he was the inventor or coinventor of 178 U.S. patents. His scientific honors were numerous and included:
From 1976 to 1982 Sarett was Merck senior vice-president for science and technology and directed the strategic planning activities of all the company's divisions worldwide. He had corporate responsibility for licensing new products and technologies and built relationships with companies and academic groups. He also became a leading spokesman for Merck and the industry on national science policy, including service on the General Accounting Office's advisory group regarding the Food and Drug Administration (1978), a Commerce Department subcommittee on research support and industrial innovation (1978-79), and a U.N. advisory group on science and technology development (1978-82). He was also a member of the Task Force on Science and Technology for President-elect Reagan and served on the Science and Technology Panel of the Reagan transition team. Sarett testified seven times during 1980-82 before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives about the interrelationships of governmental policy and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.
During his tenure as senior vice-president for science and technology, Sarett was asked if he would like to be director of the National Institutes of Health, but Merck President Henry Gadsden asked him to remain at Merck, and somewhat reluctantly Sarett turned down the NIH possibility.
He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and a member of the Institute of Medicine in 1978. Other honors included:
Throughout his career Sarett was an active participant and advisor to numerous professional organizations. Among these activities were the following:
He also became a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee of the University of California, San Diego, in 1971; a member of the Center for Public Resources Task Force on Developing Countries' Health in 1979; and a member of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association's Commission on Drugs for Rare Diseases in 1981.
Sarett retired from Merck in 1982 several months ahead of his sixty-fifth birthday and mandatory retirement as a corporate officer. An overflow crowd of admirers packed the Baltusrol Country Club in Springfield, New Jersey, on July 23, 1982, to express their gratitude and to wish him well. Among the speakers was his long-time mentor and colleague Max Tishler. With great pride he described Sarett's contributions to chemistry, to the growth and welfare of Merck, and to the shaping of public science policy. It was a memorable night and a breadth of achievements unequaled in Merck chemistry was honored.
Sarett's first marriage ended in divorce and he remarried on June 28, 1969. His second wife was Merck microbiologist Pamela Thorp, and they were together for the remaining 30 years of his life. They had two children: Will H. Sarett of Bonney Lake, Washington, and Renee M. Sarett of Norwich, Vermont. Like Sarett, Pamela Thorp had grown up in Wisconsin and when he retired from Merck, they decided to relocate from Skillman, New Jersey, to a rural area. Their choice was to build a home in Viola, Idaho, where they could have fruit trees, tend garden, and Sarett would be well located for occasional hunting trips. The surrounding countryside was beautiful and the University of Idaho was nearby. He was offered a position in its chemistry department, but he declined feeling that he had been away from the laboratory for too many years. Instead, he joined the advisory committee of a venture capital company, New Enterprise Associates, and became active in the West Coast biotech industry. With years of experience he knew how to develop drugs and this knowledge was an important asset for biotech companies to draw upon; following his retirement from Merck he served on the boards of directors of more than 15 of them, including Affymax, Amylin, Immunex, and Genentech Development Corporation. He enjoyed working with innovators, and the entrepreneurial spirit of these smaller organizations brought back pleasant memories of his early days at Merck.
Lew Sarett died in Viola at age 81 of complications from advanced colitis. In addition to his wife and four children he was survived by five grandchildren. As Max Tishler said of him at his retirement dinner "both by words and by his accomplishments he added a sense of excitement to invention in industrial laboratories."
THE AUTHOR IS MOST grateful to Joseph M. Ciccone for providing biographical data from the Merck archives, including the transcript of an interview with Lew Sarett conducted by Leon Gortler on September 6, 1990. Review of this manuscript by Pamela Sarett Presol and information supplied by Renee Sarett and Charles W. Newhall of New Enterprise Associates are also gratefully acknowledged.


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Breeze Park (map)
600 Breeze Park Dr.
St. Charles, MO 63304
Where St. Charles goes for Senior Living,
Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing & More.
A great location, neighbors who quickly become friends, and programs to stimulate body, mind, and spirit…Breeze Park senior living offers all this and much, much more.
Here in the heart of historic St. Charles, Missouri 63304, you can enjoy the comforts of home without the work and worry. You can live with peace of mind, knowing that you will receive priority access to our comprehensive continuity of senior health care should your health needs change over time.
Come join us where value and peace of mind are part of everyday living. Call 636.939.5223 or email us to learn more!
What We Offer
One of the things that set Breeze Park apart is our wide array of senior living options. As a continuing care retirement community, we offer five levels of service, all on one beautifully maintained campus. To learn more about any of our levels of service, please click on the links below.
Independent Living
Breeze Park is filled with endless opportunities for fun and friendship. Our spacious, comfortable senior living apartments and patio homes offer a full range of first-class amenities. Surrounded by warm, friendly neighbors and a caring, professional staff, you're sure to feel right at home.
REACH Short Stay
Need short-term care following a qualifying hospital stay? You can find it through our REACH Short Stay Rehabilitation program. Here, our interdisciplinary team can help you work hard toward achieving your goals in a comfortable, homelike setting.
Assisted Living
In our private assisted living apartments, residents benefit from 24-hour staffing, help with personal care, medication assistance, weekly housekeeping, linen service, and three daily meals. We're here to help you maintain your independence by offering the help you need, when you need it.
Memory Care Assisted Living
Our controlled-access memory care neighborhood supports ambulatory residents who have early to mid-stage Alzheimer's disease or other memory impairments. Offering all the amenities of our assisted senior living apartments, this inviting, homelike setting helps residents find comfort in the company of friendly neighbors and caring staff members.
Skilled Nursing
For residents who need 24-hour nursing care, we offer private rooms, companion rooms, and companion suites to help seniors continue to live life to the fullest. Far from the sterile image of the traditional nursing home, our care center is a warm, welcoming environment featuring on-call nursing assistance, licensed medication management, an incontinence care program, and medical director oversight.
The Lutheran Senior Services Difference
As a Lutheran Senior Services (LSS) retirement community, Breeze Park is part of a 150-year tradition of compassionate service. At the heart of our philosophy of care is LSS' Christian mission: Older Adults Living Life to the Fullest.
Serving with heart is at the core of all we do. We cherish people of all beliefs and strive to meet the complete needs of each person we serve — body, mind, and spirit. To that end, we are dedicated to a comprehensive approach to senior care and services, from our skilled team of caregivers to our full time chaplains who provide spiritual support for residents and their families.
To learn more about LSS, click here.
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What does an active lifestyle look like at Breeze Park? What do you want it to look like?
When you choose a maintenance-free lifestyle at Breeze Park, you get to leave the hassles and headaches of maintaining property to us. That leaves you free to pursue all the things you love.
Just think — what would you do if you didn't have to spend all your time keeping the house in order? Spend more time with family and friends? Volunteer at your church? Work on your hobbies? Kick back and relax? Here, all your options are open.
Recreation at Breeze Park
Our recreation team designs a unique and varied calendar of events each month, with an eye toward helping you expand your horizons socially, culturally, spiritually, and educationally.
There's always something happening at Breeze Park, from exercise classes in the pool to discussion groups in the Chapel, from movie nights in the media room to shopping trips off campus. And if there's ever something you want to do that's not on the calendar, let us know! We're always looking for new ideas.
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Dining at Breeze Park
One of the most popular features of life at Breeze Park is our fabulous on-site dining. Our attentive dining services staff is always ready to assist you! Residents in our independent living apartments and patio homes can enjoy meals in our dining room or packaged to go, with meal plans included in their monthly service fee. Meanwhile, our REACH Short Stay, assisted living, memory care, and care center dining areas provide table service for three meals a day.
Plenty of Fun Just Around the Corner
Located in the heart of St. Charles, Missouri, Breeze Park is just a short drive from everywhere. St. Charles and its neighboring communities offer a wealth of cultural attractions, dining, shopping, golf, and medical facilities. Click below to see what St. Charles and its sister cities have to offer.
Welcome to Breeze Park
Lorraine McCracken
Lorraine McCracken has been proving skeptics wrong her entire life. "I was born blind," says Lorraine, who now makes her home at Breeze Park. "There are always people who believe blind people can't learn to do things," she says with a smile that speaks volumes. "It blows their mind."
"I've always been very independent," she says. That's one reason Lorraine chose to retire at Breeze Park. Her apartment there offers her the greatest possible amount of independence, while still giving her easy access to a helping hand or two when she needs it. "For example," she says, "I'm not a good cook. Everyone's got different talents, but cooking isn't one of mine. I 'nuke' everything. But here, I don't have to worry about it—I just go to the dining room."
"I love it here," she says. "It's such a warm place. Everyone's accepted me."
And, every once in a while, Lorraine doesn't mind blowing a mind or two among her new neighbors. "Sometimes when I'm out and about, I'll still hear people say, 'Isn't she amazing? How does she do that?'" Lorraine says with a laugh.
Ernestine Moves Forward
Milt Freivogel
Shortly after Milt and Marilyn Freivogel moved to Breeze Park, his wife Marilyn was transferred into the care center. "I had about three months where my wife was over there," he says. "Our moving here actually worked out perfectly; she got the care she needed, and I was able to walk out the back door of the independent living area and go to see her every day."
At the end of those three months, Marilyn passed away. Fortunately, Milt was surrounded by a host of new friends they'd made in their short time living at Breeze Park.
"While Marilyn was in the care center, I spent my evenings and nights by myself," Milt says. "If you spend all that time in your apartment, all you can do is sit around and think. So, after Marilyn passed, I decided to get out and do as much as I could."
Fortunately, Breeze Park had a lot of activities for Milt to choose from. He became a regular at the community's parties, trivia nights, out-trips, and card games. "When you go to those types of events, you have a better chance to make friends with people than just hanging around the normal settings," he says. "There are plenty of opportunities to get to know people here. You have the ability to get out and do more if you want. This was definitely a good move."
Gloria McKean
When Gloria McKean retired at 56 years old from Southwestern Bell she felt that she was too young to just sit in a rocking chair. "I had to do something!" she says.
Gloria used that same strategy when she started looking for an independent living community. "Breeze Park has so much for me to do right now, but it also has assisted living, nursing care, and memory care if the future ever calls for it. That was important to me because I'm single and I didn't want someone else to make that sort of decision for me in the future."
While she's keeping an eye on tomorrow, Gloria is having a great time in the here and now. "I've met a lot of great people here, and there is so much to do. There is an onsite movie theater where we watched the World Series last year. The exercise program here has been great too. I wasn't exercising before I came here but now I take exercise classes, balance classes and classes on ways to deal with arthritis."
"I do have a rocking chair in my back room," she says with a grin, "but I don't spend much time in it."
Betty and John Haddock
A year ago, Betty and John Haddock were going through a time of transition. "John's doctor asked him to give up driving because of health reasons," Betty recalls. The couple was starting to rely more and more on their kids for help. "We got an invitation to a luncheon here, and I remember John saying, 'Maybe we ought to check this Breeze Park out.' Everything just fell into place after that."
Hearing the Haddocks remember their move as just 'falling into place' is something from which Ruth Jayne takes great pride. A member of Lutheran Senior Services' Move-In Resources team, Ruth goes to great lengths to make sure new residents' first experiences at Breeze Park are as smooth and carefree as they can be.
"Ruth started working before she left our condo after our first meeting," Betty says. "She was just wonderful. She does so many things you don't even think about. I was always saying, 'Well, I didn't expect this!' The cable company was giving John a hard time, and Ruth helped get that squared away," Betty says. "It's those little things than mean a lot when you're under stress making a change."
"When we moved in, she even left us lunch in the refrigerator," John says. "I give her an A+!"
Our Staff
Welcome to Breeze Park! We offer seniors an active lifestyle and the peace of mind that comes with knowing that help is available if you need it. Located two miles north of I-64 in St. Charles County, Missouri, our personal services and on-site conveniences help you lead a maintenance-free lifestyle. When you arrive at Breeze Park, you'll feel right at home.
As part the of Lutheran Senior Services family of communities, we combine a faith-based approach and a respect and dignity for all who call Breeze Park home. Whether you or your loved one is looking for a maintenance-free, independent living apartment or patio home or requires varying stages of assistance, Breeze Park is the senior living community to select. Please contact us with questions or to set up a time to visit. We look forward to meeting you!
Tammy Hempen
Executive Director
Executive Director
ph 636.720.3384
The executive director for Breeze Park, Tammy Hempen has more than eight years of long-term care experience. A Certified Aging Services Professional (CASP), she has earned a bachelor of science in health administration from Truman State University and a masters of science in health services management from Lindenwood University in St. Charles. She lives in St. Peters, Missouri with her husband, daughter, and dog, Maples.
Care Center Administrator
ph 636.720.3080
Holly Stevens holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a Master of Business Administration degree from Lindenwood University. She brings more than 20 years of management experience to the position of Care Center Administrator, with more than a decade of that spent in the health care field. She joined the Breeze Park team in July 2008 as the Human Resources director, and she currently lives in St. Peters, Missouri, with her husband, son, daughter, and dog Sandie.
Senior Living Counselor
ph 636.720.3084
Part of the Lutheran Senior Services family for 19 years, Michele Quillo began her career at Hidden Lake as the office manager in 1990 and later moved into the marketing department. In September 1993, Michele joined the Breeze Park staff. Michele has a bachelor's degree in administration of justice from the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She lives in O'Fallon and has two college-age daughters.
Director of Dining Services
ph 636.720.3086
Director of Dining Services for Breeze Park since 2006, Suzanne Correnti is a registered and licensed dietitian. She graduated from Fontbonne University with a bachelor's degree in dietetics and has her master's of business administration from Fontbonne. Suzanne has worked in school food service, acute care, and long-term care and brings more than 20 years experience in the food and nutrition to Breeze Park.
Director of Human Resources
ph 636.720.0350
Kim joined Lutheran Senior Services in July 2012. She brings over 20 years of Human Resources experience to her position, having worked in the finance, healthcare, insurance, and childcare industries. She received her Master's degree in Human Resources Management from Webster University and her Bachelor's degree from The University of Kansas. She lived in Atlanta for six years where she advanced her HR career before returning to St. Louis in 2001. Kim has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Phoenix and currently conducts workshops on Job Readiness Preparation.
A Gift of Time and Talent
At Breeze Park, service-minded individuals find many opportunities to give of their time and talents. We match each volunteer with residents and their families depending upon skills, interests, and availability.
Volunteering can include any number of activities, including:
- Clerical work
- Assistance with resident activities
- Support for special events and fundraisers
If you are interested in volunteering at Breeze Park, click here to email our volunteer coordinator.
Giving a Gift of Treasure
Our parent organization, Lutheran Senior Services, is a not-for-profit organization built on financial stability and sound stewardship. We invite you to support us in our mission of service by making a gift through the LSS Living Foundation.
Your help will advance our Christian mission of honoring and cherishing those we serve. Your gift will be used to directly help older adults living life to the fullest.
So make your legacy part of the Lutheran Senior Services legacy - give today or contact our stewardship director for free and confidential advice about how your gift can help others.
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Director of Stewardship
ph 636.939.5223, Ext. 2302
As Director of Stewardship for Breeze Park, Al Koepke brings over 20 years of experience in the area of Christian stewardship and planned giving. As we all live longer, the desire to meet our personal and financial goals in serving self, family and others can become more challenging. Al is available to assist residents and their families with financial stewardship and in planning gifts that will benefit them today as well as others beyond their lifetimes.
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In this series, Ryan Pettey offers several clips from his powerful documentary "From the Dust". This feature-length film is divided up into various sections, each of which wrestles with the difficult problems that arise when reconciling Scripture with the theory of evolution. A light of hope dawns on the science-faith conversation, however, as scientists and theologians engage in honest dialogue about tough issues such as the interpretation of Genesis, the nature of the Fall, and the idea of random design. Their profound insights are sure to enlighten all minds, raise deeper questions, and provoke new thought.
This entry was originally posted on February 11, 2010. In this brief video, Professor Schloss addresses what he sees as the two primary reasons that evangelical Christians oppose evolutionary theory.
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In this video Conversation, Denis Alexander asserts that contemporary Christians are not taking the early chapters of Genesis seriously enough.
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Hey, what do you know? We got it right.
My 28 fellow baseball writers who are empowered to pick the American League Most Valuable Player Award did the right thing in picking Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera over the remarkable Mike Trout, with the margin bigger than expected. Cabrera received 22 first-place votes, 16 more than the rookie with unparalleled metrics.
He was surprised to be an easy choice.
"This means a lot,'' Cabrera said on a conference call. "I'm very humbled. I thought it was going to be close. … I did not expect to win. Thank God (the baseball writers) vote for me.''
While the vote was cast as old school against new school, in the end it was more about winning. Cabrera carried the Tigers into the playoffs, making up a three-game deficit to the White Sox with only 15 games left. They wouldn't have done that without Cabrera being the rock in the middle of the lineup.
Cabrera hit .343 with 13 home runs and 34 RBIs in 37 games after Aug. 23, including three three-hit games against the White Sox. During that time, the 21-year-old Trout hit .269 with six homers, stealing eight bases, as the Angels finished third to the A's and the Rangers in the AL West.
He was far and away the most complete, most spectacular player in the game but it was Cabrera, the Tigers' seemingly always grinning third baseman, who delivered within baseball's timeless context.
That is, he did what the Tigers needed him to do to reward his owner, his front office, his teammates and his team's fans with a ticket to the second season. Excluding the 1994 strike season, 19 of the last 20 AL MVPs have come from playoff teams, and it didn't make sense to leave Cabrera out of that line just because Trout did more for the people who had him in fantasy leagues.
Without the closing kick of Cabrera and the Tigers, Trout would have been a deserving winner. There's no debate about that. But the case for Cabrera was just a little bit better, as the final vote tally — 362 to 281 — illustrate.
Some will paint the outcome as another example of BBWAA members being out of touch with statistical analysis and baseball's new math. Even brilliant pollster Nate Silver, late of Baseball Prospectus, weighed in before the vote was announced with a piece on his New York Times blog headed "The Statistical Case Against Cabrera for MVP.''
In it, Silver uses mathematical formulas to show that Trout's baserunning and defense were worth 23 runs to the Angels while Cabrera's station-to-station baserunning and awkwardness at third base cost the Tigers 13 runs — a difference of 36 runs. Was Cabrera that much better of a hitter?
Probably not, but he carried a team with a flawed lineup — leadoff man Austin Jackson and cleanup hitter Prince Fielder were also essential pieces — into the playoffs. Silver responds to that by pointing out the Angels won 89 games, one more than the Tigers. It's a good point but until MLB eliminates divisional play not an especially persuasive one.
"Perhaps 10 or 20 years ago, when evaluations of baserunning, defense and clutch hitting were murkier, stat geeks would have argued that Cabrera deserved the MVP on the basis of the hard evidence,'' Silver writes. "Now that some of the 'intangibles' have become measurable, we know that Trout did more of the little things to help his team win. It's the traditionalists who are using statistics in a way that misses the forest for the trees.''
There's no question that the means of measuring performance have evolved. MLB has changed too. Now five teams in each league — more than one in every three in the 14-team AL this season — go to the playoffs. When I weigh MVP candidates, I'm going to look at players on those teams before I consider guys whose teams didn't meet that standard.
This year there was no way to get past Cabrera.
And by the way, it's about time he won. Miggy was second to Josh Hamilton in 2010, receiving five first-place votes, and was a strong candidate again in 2011, finishing fifth behind teammate Justin Verlander. It was his time. Like the chance to get past the White Sox down the stretch, he didn't let it get away.
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We often post links to other photographer's site - those ones we admire, think "made" it - and it never really is someone from our own ranks.
that old saying about prophets......
Anyway - may I remind you we have some of the best here on NG too. They are still alive.
Thing is - if I die tomorrow - everyone is going to rush over and check out my site.
So I thought - lets check out some while they are still with us
*yes I know you can all do this on your own - but we dont always - do we.....)
Michael and his macros.
many many downloadable PDF's for your to go thru - topics include:
The Art of Focus Stacking
Close-up and Macro Photography
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Hope you enjoy his site.
I will be posting new links now and then, so do follow the thread please
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"I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money." Philippe Halsman
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A wonderful idea and I'm sure there will be some excellent sites and pictures to view.
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La Sal Mountains > Mt. Peale > Climber's Log
Mt. Peale Climber's Log
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|Wrong Route
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2012
|Took the wrong route and it got a little dicey.
|Posted Sep 14, 2013 8:37 pm
|With Tuk from Gold Basin
Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2013
|Part of the Middle La Sal traverse w/ Tuk. Summited about 4:15 after leaving the trailhead after crossing Tuk and the Razor Fang. Was going to hit Mellenthin on the way back to Gold Basin but chased off by thunderstorms.
Trip report
|Posted Jun 17, 2013 12:44 am
|Nice aspens
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2012
|Came from the southern pass after camping out below. Brilliant fall colors in these very splendid aspen stands. Large by Utah standards. scrambled up into some slipper snow covered talus and then into the cloads. I did not get the far reaching views I hoped for, but the swirling opening and closing of the clouds gave me glimpses below every so often that were dreamlike.
|Posted Apr 25, 2013 3:23 pm
|Via Gold Basin.
|Posted Nov 1, 2012 12:43 pm
|September 1st, thunderstorms
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2012
|Climbed the mountain via the south couloir. Reached the summit just a few minutes ahead of a rain squall that was giving off a bunch of lightening and thunder. Got off the mountain as quick as we could.
|Posted Sep 5, 2012 7:53 pm
|Happy Pioneer Day
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2012
|Did this with Mellenthin, and Tukuhnikivatz. Was a great day. Made it to the top of Peale in 1 hr 15 mins from the dirt road that heads north just before Medicine Lake and La Sal Pass.
|Posted Jul 25, 2012 1:43 pm
|Late Morning Lightning
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2011
|Deep snow on the approach from the trailhead. After a fun climb up the couloir, we started toward the summit. Decided to turn back when storm clouds gathered early. By the time we made it down, lightning lit up the slopes. Next time I'm in the area I'll try the Tuk/Peale traverse via the "razor fang." Looks like it could be a great route given the right snow conditions.
|Posted Jun 21, 2012 7:34 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2010
|Climbed Tuk first and then traversed over to Peale. Beautiful clear day with views made hazy by smoke from a controlled burn in the central part of the state.
|Posted Jun 12, 2012 4:34 pm
|Tuk, Peale, Mellenthin
Date Climbed: May 30, 2012
|Started from Gold Basin. Climbed Little Tuk, Tuk, Peale, Laurel, and Mellenthin and then returned via Laurel's west ridge.
|Posted May 31, 2012 3:31 pm
Date Climbed: May 19, 2012
|Had a wonderful time in the wilderness today on these two peaks. The best part was the time when the rotten rock of the razor fang tried to eat me.
|Posted May 20, 2012 12:02 am
|Ted Eliason
|Worth the trip from Moab
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 1994
|An easy Utah peak with very different scenery than the Wasatch. Camping out it can feel like an expedition to a different country even though the mountain is little more than an easy hike.
|Posted Oct 12, 2011 1:47 pm
|Three strikes, and out
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2011
|Strike One: Attempting to access Mt. Peale via La Sal Pass from the west, only to find it impassible and covered in snow. (Google maps has a funny way of choosing the "best" directions.)
Strike Two: Breaking in my new crampons and ice axe climbing the snow filled couloir to the ridge, only to turn back when the weather got nasty. Making it to the truck just as lightning lit up the sky and stuck the ground where we had just made our descent. (Instincts, check.)
Strike Three: Heading down to the lower campgrounds to escape the storm and attempt again in the morning, only to wake up to find a huge aspen blocking the road from the storm the day before, and black clouds building before the sun made an appearance. (Lucky that we weren't trapped on the other side of that aspen!)
Mt. Peale may have beaten me, but I still had fun trying to summit and enjoyed my time in the range. Very nice area and I hope to return!
|Posted Sep 26, 2011 11:00 pm
|From La Sal Pass
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2011
|Great climb. Probably easier to start from the road just east of the pass. Sea Level to 12,700 in 27 hours! Could just see Mount Sneffels which I climbed 22 years earlier.
|Posted Sep 8, 2011 6:26 pm
|Pleasant Hike
Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2011
|I camped at Medicine Lake the night before. There was intermittent rain and lightning the whole night until 5:00 am. I didn't think I'd be able to climb with the weather, but it finally cleared out. I started from the trail head off La Sal Pass Rd at 6:15. I hiked the trail until I met the 4 wheel drive road and I then followed it until I met 2 cairns on the right. I followed them up the gully. In the last quarter of the gully, I chose to climb up the east side, rather than follow it to the ridge. I followed the ridge east, and reached the top of Peale by 8:05. I had it all to myself. After 20 minutes on top, I started the descent. At 9:45, I returned to the Medicine Lake camp. My favorite part was a gorgeous green field at the top of the gully. I could have stayed there all day. Thank you Mt. Peale for giving me good conditions and further convincing me that mountain climbing is my absolute favorite activity.
|Posted Sep 7, 2011 10:39 am
|Tuk & Peale
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2011
|Hiked up Tukuhnikivatz and then over to Mt. Peale.
|Posted Sep 6, 2011 9:42 am
|From La Sal Pass
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2010
|Hiked Waas the night before, arriving near the pass around 2:00 am. Got in a couple hours of sleep and started up the trail as the eastern sky turned pink. Loved the view from the top with Canyonlands and the Henrys to the west and the San Juans to the SE.
Had the summit to myself, but ran into about 12 people on the way down. Not bad for a holiday weekend.
|Posted Jul 5, 2011 1:52 pm
|From La Sal Pass Road
Date Climbed: Mar 31, 2011
|Started from La Sal Pass road at 8,100'. Snowshoe hiked the road to Beaver Lake (4.8 miles one-way) and ascended the ridge/rib on the left side of the gully. Nice weather, great views from the summit ridge.
|Posted Apr 3, 2011 10:31 pm
|Route Climbed: Via La Sal Pass, Mt. Mellenthin traverse
Date Climbed: May 29, 2010
|Snow and a downed Aspen tree prevented me from reaching La Sal pass...tack on an extra two miles roundtrip for that one! What an amazing experience, the snow couloir was fun! I saw fresh mountain lion, coyote and bear tracks in the snow.
|Posted Jan 14, 2011 11:41 pm
|La Sal Pass
Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2010
|Solo hikes are rare these days, so this was fun! Took off up on FR 275 and found the use trail heading into the gully. Steep, leg-burning terrain, but nothing tricky. I'd done the Slickrock Bike Trail the day before, so my legs were a little gassed...after topping out the gully, ridge-walked over to Peale's summit and soaked in the view, which is ridiculous! Golden and red aspens lined the valleys and the views into red-rock country were great. Took ~3.5 hrs round trip
|Posted Oct 13, 2010 5:17 pm
|Dartmouth Hiker
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2010
|Climbed with my mom as a brief side trip on the drive to school. The road up to the pass was mostly quite good, though rain the previous day made the creek crossing a bit worrisome in our passenger car! We made it up (with my mom stopping 200' below the very top) in a bit under four hours, and back down in a bit over two. I didn't stay long at the top due to some nasty looking clouds building up to the north, but the weather held on the way down.
If you're in the area, Peale is 100% worth climbing!
|Posted Aug 19, 2010 4:28 pm